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Tallulah has an abscess :(

Tallulah scared me so much this morning, she didnt wheek or come out for breakfast... looked in her little house she was lying down not moving... complete panic... then she woke up and wandered over to eat a carrot slice, she was just asleep after staying up all night stuffing her face with pellets and hay!
 
PigglePuggle said:
Tallulah scared me so much this morning, she didnt wheek or come out for breakfast... looked in her little house she was lying down not moving... complete panic... then she woke up and wandered over to eat a carrot slice, she was just asleep after staying up all night stuffing her face with pellets and hay!
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They do like to scare us!
 
It's always worrying when you have to entrust them to your vet. You trust your vet and so I'm sure everything will be fine.
 
Whatever happens tomorrow she had a nice day today, chatting with the other piggies and rummaging in hay for bits of bistro salad in the playpen, then home to a nice clean cage and a big red pepper and coriander dinner and even more hay... tomorrow will be weird because I'm teaching 11 until 4 so it will be drop her at the vets at 9 then try act professional all day... I don't know whether to get piggy daddy or the vet to phone me at lunchtime or not, because I have to teach a lab class from 2-4 tomorrow whatever happens...
 
Probably bettet for your husboar to call you, less pressure to listen to the vet. Depends what your husboar is doing i suppose, i always book the day off for any operations, but obviously you cant do that as a teacher. My wife is a teaching assistant or hilta as she sais. And i can never get hold of her when something is going on with the pigs
 
Poor thing! One of my past pigs, Linney, had an abscess and the entire capsule removed from her lower back. It was absolutely the best way of handling an abscess- no flushing aftercare, just a few stitches, and never recurred again for the rest of her life. If they are able to get the entire capsule out, I think it's the best possible option!
 
Thanks everyone for your support! Just dropped Tallulah off at the vets with a fleecy hidey tube and a packed lunch. Head vet Clare will be doing the surgery but another vet booked her in, and the vet booking her in is visiting from another practice and is a guinea pig specialist who keeps piggies herself and said she has operated on her own piggies many times. They reassured me about heat lamps and heat pads and insulating blankets. So little bat-hippo is in the best possible hands today, hoping for a good outcome!
 
little Tallulah is in all our thoughts and all our fingers and toes are crossed, I’m sure she will be fine x
 
Not been on for a couple of days, poor Tallulah! And poor you never gets a break, hope you're ok.
I've had a piggy with very large abscess on his side which I had to flush for a couple of weeks and then obv Pedro with his rather strange one! Both ops went well but aftercare rather different!

Hoping it can all be removed and she gets through well, sounds like she's in brilliant hands and will be in even more brilliant ones with you for her recovery :)
 
I hope she really is ok, the other piggies are very subdued and know where she's gone, especially Puggle who has been to the vets a lot with her bloat, Puggle was on guard standing on her hind legs on top of the castle house when she saw us put Tallulah in the vet box... when we came back this morning without the box Puggle was distraught, she has the most accusing piggy eyes, she wants her next door friend back!
 
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